The machine guns!
the machine guns are an excellent example of fake guns and are a great depiction of how a carpenter might build a fake gun and then paint it gunmetal!
The fact that they are fakes and look it doesn't bother me at all ,in fact guns are not one of my favorite things anyway and not really something that I would want to promote to kids.Maybe I should paint them red!

Air show guns!
Now there is no question that these are fake guns made from tin.The storyline is of an ex airshow Camel being shipped off for use as a movie prop or for movie advertising purposes.For airshows showmanship would allow for painted guns ,where in movies they would have to be more realistic looking.
I would rather that these be obviously looking fakes than a bad attempt at trying to make them looking real.
I know that this is not everyone's cup of tea(apology to my military friends) but it does fit in with the storyline of this diorama.It also allows me to use these obviously fake guns without having to scratchbuild new ones and still inject the movie aspect into the diorama.
I think now that I have captured just about every aspect of aviation in the 20's.Military re-union,airshow,racing,movies etc...
I plan to suggest to the museum people that they make the display interactive for the kids ,such as finding the air race posters or the Wright Flyer or the 4 animals that will be in the diorama.Some will be easy and others very hard to spot and it sure would be a great way to have them explore the whole diorama.

Model On John! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Peace and Love everyone!
Back in the 60's this was my dad's first attempt at skywriting.He was flying our recently restored '29 Beech Travelair biplane.You can just see the airplane on the right hand middle of the pic.If you follow the smoke trail back you can just make out the" l "and "o "of the word love.These were the 60's of course and he was attempting to write "Peace and Love" in the skies over the city of Montreal.

Testing if my Profile is working because it hasn't been for a while

Well,well,well after 2 days of trying my 13 year old bud next store solved my problem with posting to this site.Took him all of 10 minutes!

Since my last post on Dec 24 of last year I have made quite a bit of progress and I am almost near the finish line.I have been posting all along to the Armorama site so I won't double post that stuff here.All the latest pics can be found on my photobucket where I have created a bunch of sub-albums.
nice to be back online.Cheers! John.
My photobucket::

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/JohnReid/

Latest pic:

The reason that most of my previous pics have been deleted is because the links broke when I moved the pics from the main album page to sub-albums within my photobucket account.All the old pics are there in sub-albums and should remain there until I croak ,which I hope is not anytime soon

The prop has been cut to fit it in the crate!

Testing again! the problem seems to come and go??

Back in operation again! I think I have found away around the posting problem(I hope)!

This is a shot of the almost finished L/H side of the diorama.

Figures on the loading dock!

All I have to say is WOW that is really cool !

Thanks terri! Glad you like it.Cheers! John.

Great stuff John!

I am glad you were able to get back with us. Now don't do that again! You go wandering off like that again and I will have the Mounties show up at your house for a health and wellfare check. Your builds inspire me and others. Model On!

Advertising the air races from under the carports roof behind the air show car.I have put different things such as this for the kids to find.There also will be four animals to discover of which the horse Comanche will be the easiest and the cat Chester the hardest.In addition to Harley the dog there will be Hooters the barn owl in the roof rafters.

Hi Stephen! Great to be back.I seem to have a cookie problem of some kind with my computer.I have found a way around it for now.I hope it doesn't show up again,very frustrating .Cheers! John.

Another pic